Your Favourite Aphorism?

Bullshido posters often end their posts with a favourite pithy quote or smartarse remark. The demotivations posters are excellent examples of aphoristic wit. What are people's favourite aphorisms, maxims, sayings, and the like? Have you written any of your own? I'll start off with a few:

- Fashion: the most expensive way of ‘just following orders’.

- Shoppers are simply cowardly gamblers – they want to be sure of their losses.

- People who crave immortality do not love life – they hate it, for they require eternity to be hopeful about it.

- Addiction is when a distraction from life becomes life itself.

- Postmodernity: that period of loud, self-conscious flatulence between a rich meal and bedtime.

- Weak friends are like wounded beasts: they attack those closest to them, worsen their own injuries, and quickly forget who cared for them.

- Philosophers should enter academia as they would a child’s playhouse – clumsily, with heads bowed.

- John Howard wants to see Australians ‘relaxed and comfortable’ – just like a hypnotist…

- The Labor Party, or ‘Liberal Lite’ – for party-goers who require intoxication, but who can’t stomach the stronger brew.

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- Racism and self-pity walk hand in hand.
- If time is a drug then Big Ben is a hypodermic needle injecting it into the sky.
- Charity degrades.
- Sentimentalists are the worst cynics.
- Never assume a wretch always deserves pity.
- Inside every revolutionary is a policeman trying to get out.
- Stupidity is a state of mind.
- It is well that war is so terrible--we should grow too fond of it
- Quotes exist to make the unimaginative look smart.